Join us for our Les Vues FREE Film May selection, Hollow Tree. This documentary, directed by Kira Akerman, follows three teenagers coming of age in their sinking homeland of Louisiana. For the first time, they notice the Mississippi River’s engineering, stumps of cypress trees, and billowing smokestacks. Their different perspectives — as Indigenous, white, and Angolan young women — shape their story of the climate crisis.
Join us for our FREE Les Vues film for July, Ancestral Artistry - The Influence of Africans and Creoles of Color on Louisiana Architecture. The 2025 Documentary Film of the Year spotlights Black master artisans’ contributions to Louisiana architecture.
Join us for the October Les Vues selection, Louisiana Grass Roots, a short documentary about our forgotten prairie. The screening is FREE to the public, and there will be a short Q & A after the film with filmmakers Phyllis Griffard & Jillian Godshall.
Join us on a special date and time for this documentary about the Pointe-au-Chien tribe in Terrebonne Parish fighting to hold on to their identity and their land. Les Vues FREE Film Series usually runs every last Monday of the month -- may be pre-empted for events.
Cajun filmmaker Pat Mire gives us an inside look at the colorful, rural Cajun Mardi Gras. Every year before Lent begins, processions of masked and costumed revelers, often on horseback, go from house to house gathering ingredients for communal gumbos in communities across rural southwest Louisiana. The often-unruly participants in this ancient tradition play as beggars, fools, and thieves as they raid farmsteads and perform in exchange for charity or, in other words, "dance for a chicken."